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Doing Nothing

Sunday, June 4, 2006

Is a good mantra for a sunday, but we all have work to do, even on God’s day.
Tom Lutz’s new book Doing Nothing: a history of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America looks like a nice read, from a quick look at its first chapter and reviews in NYT, Salon and LATimes.
I was reminded [...]

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knowing something, anything

Saturday, June 3, 2006

Read Sepoy’s know thy enemy, for a list of brilliant insights Middle East experts at West Point have to offer. Since my comment provoked this entry, I shall also claim authorship and have all of you read it.

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Who is Lakireddy?

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Leena posts this story at pass the roti on the warped priorities of MSM and blogosphere. One more take on the Kaavya V controversy but this time it isn’t about her.
Who is Lakireddy? Read on.

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Read this

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Here is an essay Swept away by the wave by Manu Chakravarthy on Rajkumar, originally published in Deep Focus and reprinted in The Hindu today.
Rajendra Chenni seeks to explain the recent Bangalore violence in Were they reclaiming a city in The Hindu.
Also, as Andrew Stevenson says in the Sydney Morning Herald, Jason Gillespie’s incredible double [...]

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Studying languages

Saturday, April 8, 2006

Alaka Basu has a nice OPED in the Washington Post on the study of critical languages. National security considerations aside, why learn a language?
But we say nothing about the biggest incentive and the biggest return of all: the love affair that can develop between a student of a foreign language and the language itself. If [...]

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A busy news week

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

This is a busy news week, what with Bush in South Asia and pundits holding fort on that great annual ritual, Budget, to which two sections of Indians looked forward to eagerly: Industrialists, who were seeking more sops from the Finance Minister and middle class Indians, who anxiously awaited income tax relief with elaborate [...]

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